On the ideality of mental phenomena

The paper analyzes ideal (mental) phenomena based on a fundamentally different methodological position, including a different understanding of the category of "information". The main emphasis is on the quality of information, changing in the modalities: "ideal" – "material". Accordingly, the following types are distinguished in the category of "information": "Ideal information», "Psychoinformation" and "Neuroinformation". Particular attention is paid to the concept of "psychoinformation", the introduction of which allows us to interpret practically everything mental from a single point of view (within the framework of classical psychology, this is the "psyche" of a person, including both the unconscious and conscious levels). This approach allows us to confirm and substantiate the hypothesis of K. Jung about the presence in the "unconscious" of all the same mental phenomena and processes that exist at the level of consciousness. In the aspect of psychoinformation, a methodological analysis of the work of L.S. Vygotsky "Thinking and Speech" is carried out; It is shown that already in this work he had laid down the possibility of solving the "eternal" psychophysiological problem, however, the implementation of this possibility was not carried out for ideological reasons. A number of hypotheses are put forward and (logically) proven, in particular, that the concept of "psychoinformation" is a criterion that allows one to quite clearly distinguish ideal mental phenomena from phenomena that only seem mental. The following are formulated: a position common to all psychology - the transformation of any mental phenomena into psychoinformation allows them to influence the material structures of a living organism, as well as the law of "Information psychodynamics". A conclusion is made that, in essence, consciousness cannot be attributed to ideal mental phenomena, since consciousness is a process of changing the quality of information (from ideal information to psychoinformation and further to neuroinformation of brain structures).